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rabbits, cats, dogs, or any dead animals, and 

 stick them on sticks, near to the coops 

 where the young pheasants are kept, until 

 they are full of maggots. Shake the sticks 

 two or three times a day: this food will 

 make them thrive wonderfully. At first 

 they should be fed with oatmeal, and even, 

 for the first two or three daj^s, with barley- 

 meal ; but you may very soon give them 

 barley with the barley-meal. For the three 

 or four first days, you should chop up some 

 onions, both the white roots and green tops : 

 this will warm their stomachs. When you 

 observe young pheasants look unkindly and 

 not well, their feathers standing up and 

 ragged, toast some bread, and steep it in 

 stale chamberlie; feed them with it until 

 they look better ; at least twice a day : this 

 will cleanse them, and make their feathers 

 look well, and lie smooth. — When you turn 

 them, when nearly full grown, into the woods, 

 be sure you do it at night; never by day, for 

 they may fly away above half a mile. Keep 

 them also very hungry the evening before 

 you turn them out, that they may take to 

 feedins: Avell the next morning; after which 



